The Kansas Demonstration to Maintain Independence and Employment: Preventing or Forestalling Disability Among Participants in the Kansas High Risk Insurance Pool

Hall, Jean P.; Moore, Janice M.

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2008-12

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Hall, Jean P.

Moore, Janice M.

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Working Healthy Policy Brief Number 11. Lawrence: University of Kansas

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Section 204 of TWWIIA authorized the development of another program targeted at disability prevention. Demonstrations to Maintain Independence and Employment (DMIEs) provide health care coverage to working people iwth potentially disabling conditions to test the hypothesis that providing health care and other supports can prevent or forestall the onset of full disability and eventual dependence on federal disability programs

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Hall, Jean, P., & Moore, J.M. (2008, December). The Kansas Demonstration to Maintain Independence and Employment: Preventing or Forestalling Disability Among Participants in the Kansas High Risk Insurance Pool. Working Healthy Policy Brief Number 11. Lawrence: University of Kansas

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